"F" 2000 Query

This section of OGSPI includes most of the queries from Ontario Genealogy Society members originally published in the Name Game section of Families during 2000.
Contact OGSPI team leader Charles Godwin at ogspi@ogs.on.ca if any entry should be updated or changed.

FAX name_game@ca.on.ogs.families 2000-08 published
LYNCH :
Ellen born 1836 Ire married 1859 William
McKENZIEKING Oakville ON died 1930
Oakville Need info where born Ire nms and locatns of
LYNCH fam in ON
Info to David
KING 27 Walker Ave Toronto ON M4V 1G3
416 964 6878
FAX 416 964 7199

FENTON name_game@ca.on.ogs.families 2000-08 published
LEPARD/
LEPPARD/
LEAPARD/
FENTON :
I am seeking any info for the above families
of North and East Gwillimbury York Co
Mary DRAPER 38 Town Line Rd West Huntsville ON P1H 1S6

FISH name_game@ca.on.ogs.families 2000-11 published
ROBERTSON : response
An article on the
SIMONS family (Ontario Historical Society Papers and
Records pp 470-492, vol. 23, 1926) contains an interesting statement that
is somewhat at variance with the information given in the query.
"Colonel (Titus
GREER/GRIER)
SIMONS had three daughters, but no sons.
The two elder daughters married two brothers, Messrs.
ROBERTSON,
Barristers, of Goderich, one of whom, Thomas, later was elevated to a
judicial position at Osgoode Hall in Toronto."
Marriage bonds exist for Alexander and Ross
ROBERTSON and their
respective
SIMONS brides, but there is a third bond for Thomas
ROBERTSON
and Charlotte
FISH, both of London, 1832, with bondsmen show as
Ira SCHOFIELD and William
ROBERTSON.
The names of these bondsmen certainly seem to connect this marriage bond
to the family mentioned in the query.
The 1857 Directory of the Province of Ontario shows Thomas
ROBERTSON,
barrister, residing in Dundas.

FLOUNDERS name_game@ca.on.ogs.families 2000-02 published
LEE :
FLOUNDERS :
Have proof William
LEE
son of Robert
LEE and wife Jane
DOAKS bc1840 Eng
m1874 Mary Jane
FLOUNDERS
dtr of Robert and wife Ann
FLOUNDERS Listowel Ont
Is this the same William who married 1863 Elizabeth
FLOUNDERS? Any ch?
Info to Louise
PETSCHULAT 1817 Grant Dr Regina SK S4S 4V5
petschulat@dlcwest.com

FOX name_game@ca.on.ogs.families 2000-05 published
SMITH : (response)
James SMITH, innkeeper of Toronto, had his bio included in
C. Blackett Robinson's History of Toronto and County of York,
Ontario (1885)
Briefly it states that he was born in Co Cavan Ire, 1820,
em to Canada at age 18, spent 14 yrs steamboating, then ran the
restaurant at Union Station for 21 yrs, retiring in 1879,
had 5 ch by first wf (3 died young) and 9 ch by second wf,
5 still living in 1885.
Gravestone, St. James' Anglican Cem, Toronto :
James SMITH, 29 Aug 1817 - 22 Aug 1902,
his wf Christina
BYERS 9 Jul 1840 - 12 Jul 1916,
James ALLEN 24 Apr 1869 - 30 Jul 1870,
Rebecca ARMSTRONG wife of James
SMITH 1815-1858,
their infant children John, Rebecca, Mary Ann.
Fred B. SMITH 1 Jan 1874 - 10 Apr 1953.
Violet Jan, wife of John E.
CAMERON 1877 - 1954.
Clary May SMITH 25 Aug 1875 - 1 Mar 1961. The biog does not mention the prts or sibs of James
SMITH,
but the mar of James to Christina
BYERS 11 Jun 1866
(Toronto City Mar Reg vol 2 pg 15) shows they are James and Jane
SMITH.
A gravestone next to James
SMITH reads :
erected by William W...n
FOX in memory of his beloved mother_in_law
Jane SMITH, native of Co Cavan Ireland died 21st Mar 1853 aged 75 yrs.